Chicken Little is a little girl in the little world that is plantation life. She is skilled in womanly arts and courtesy. She is only eight, but the truth of her situation weighs on her day after day. She is to marry at 16, sooner if possible. She is to make her family proud. Choice is a thing they have in the North, He tells her. He seems to be her only friend. Only she doesn't know who He is.
